_What do you think is hiding in that basement? Why doesn't he tell us? In this way, we are no different from Billy. Peter said to Thomas.
Thomas took a breath, took an apple out of his pocket, rubbed it on his clothes, bit it, and said: "who knows, it doesn't matter; finally, it will be clear one day, at least I get fresh and free apples every day" and he bit the apple again.
_What do you mean? Where did you get this apple? Peter said.
_I grabbed it from the fruit basket inside Jesse's house when he was not paying attention, and we were standing behind him". Thomas said with his mouth full.
Surprised, Peter slowly turned his head towards Thomas, stared at Thomas, and Thomas looked at him while biting his apple. Peter started to laugh, and Thomas laughed with him.
John entered the basement; one meter from the basement door, there was another door, and in fact, the entrance area was nothing, a small room with only one door inside and only one candle hanging next to the door, which did not provide much light. John didn't know what kind of place this was and if Jesse wanted to imprison him, so what does this door do here, and what can be inside? John could not get the answers to his questions from anyone, so he had to do it himself, and he stepped forward while holding the wound of his hand with his othet hand; he went to the door, took the handle and opened it and faced a strange scene, his mouth was open, his eyes were shining, but not out of shock or surprise, but because of the bright light inside the room, a narrow corridor with light hanging on both sides, and guess what kind of light it was that made people wonder? The light of the city lamp! But how? How did Jesse James achieve this light In this era? they didn't have lamps, and their source of light was only candles. Is Jesse James really a magician? Was he the one who achieved this invention ? John went forward as he asked one question after another in his mind. He went to one of the lamps and moved his healthy hand, which was a little bloody, towards that light to touch it and make sure that it was not a dream and it is real!
"No, no, don't touch it;I have hardly kept it there ; everything might fall apart"!
Hearing this sound, John was surprised and quickly pulled back his hand and looked around to find the source of the sound.
- Here, from this side!
The source of the sound comes from the end of the corridor, and John walks towards the end of the corridor; when he arrives, he sees a bald man sitting on a chair doing something.
_Who are you? What are you doing down here? What's the matter? John asked in surprise.
"I am Professor Graham, and I work for Jesse James; I make and invent things for him You are probably here because Jesse James wanted you to say the truth; umm, you are not the first one, he sent me here for a while to tell him the truth too,but MY truth made me stay here forever" the bald man said.
"Professor Robert Graham"? John asked surprisingly.
When the professor heard this name, he stopped his work, raised his head, looked at John, and said in a trembling sound: You. . . How do you know my full name? Did Jesse tell you about me? Why should he do this? You came to kill me??!
- No, no, no … Don't worry, he doesn't want to kill you, as you said He sent me here to say the truth, but the truth is that I am also in the same era as you; I came from the future, you have been missing for five years, and no one knew about you, let me see what happened to you?». Mr. Graham stood up:
- Oh my God, oh my God, is it true? Is it been five years? I didn't count anymore.
I left myself in the hands of fate, and I was sure that I had no way back. Did they send you to find me? Yeah? Is my family okay? To be honest, I was testing our own invention; I shouldn't have taken that risk, I went to the basement of the house, and the thought didn't leave my head, I don't want to praise myself but I was the best of all, after making a few samples of the time travel machine I had the original sample. I stared at it for hours, and I couldn't resist the temptation. We researched and struggled for years. I wanted to see the result of our work, so without thinking about bringing the substances of the present time with me and bringing some equipment in general, I pressed the button and randomly chose a bottle. And then I appeared in the basement of Jesse James. It's funny, isn't it? It's like I was transferred from a modern basement to an old basement, then I ran away. Jesse James saw me and followed me. I lost him for a few days and hid. Finally, I got hungry and stole food, and was WANTED by the sheriff Two twin brothers found me and wanted to kill me, but Jesse James arrived and saved me. I became his prisoner and his debtor, and the two of them became his hunters». When Mr. Graham remembered all these events and incidents that he had gone through, he sat on a chair and put his hand on his forehead, and sighed.
_ From that time, Jesse realized that I came from the future; that is, I explained to him I had to, he couldn't believe it, and he tried to kill me several times until I proved it to him, and since then, I have been making modern things for him, from all the information I have, medicine, electricity, even I helped him build his house, and I designed it for him».
John was upset after hearing the professor's disturbing words and what happened to him, and now he remembered what Jesse James meant.
"Honestly, Mr. Graham, I did not come to save you. No one knew where you disappeared. The police looked for you everywhere, but there was no trace of you. You had disappeared. I do not know about your family. I am sorry for what happened to you" John said in a calm and slow sound.
Mr. Graham rested his forehead on his hands and shook his head:
" I wish I didn't do that". Mr. Graham raised his head and asked with a curious face: Wait a minute, if you didn't come for me, then what did you come for?
John told him his story.
" so That's how you use the machine nowadays, for fun eh?! Let me know which golden gun. All the time I was with Jesse James, I did not hear or see any trace of such a gun"?! Mr. Graham said.
As if cold air had hit his body, John felt despair for a moment after hearing this, and he told himself that what if it was all a myth and that there really was no gun and that he had bothered himself in vain; his heart beat a little faster than he shook his head to get those negative thoughts out of his head. He said: I don't know, he must not have shown it in front of you, anyway, everyone said that it is very valuable to him and he kills special people with it.
When Mr. Graham found out about John's time machine that he hid somewhere, he was happy, and the light of hope shone in his eyes, he told John that he could come to the future with it and save himself. They built the time machine in such a way that two people could travel together, and they just had to find a way to escape from Jesse James and get themselves to that garden.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Graham, but I'm not going anywhere without that gun; there's a lot of people waiting for me, and I can't go back disappointed and defeated"John said.
"What?? Are you really serious? Are you ready to die here but don't let your pride be damaged? After all this, do you think you can easily travel to other times and gather collections? What did you think when you came up with this stupid idea? Is your family not important to you? In addition, you can't take a tool from the past because time will breaks! Mr. Graham said in anger.
"This is not important to me; I was born to be a collector; this is my destiny; I always did dangerous things to collect my collections, and I always succeeded, this is like the rest of them, and by the way, I don't have a family, it was my choice to be alone. Family is a distraction. I thought about the tools, you don't have to be worry,"John said in pride.
Mr. Graham couldn't believe it; he looked at John with surprise and shook his head as a sign of regret and disappointment.
It turned out that John was more ambitious and selfish than he seemed, and he did not care about the destruction of the world; that is, even if everyone was destroyed, as soon as he gathered his collection, his gathering collection disease would heal, he was like an addict and had a strange temptation to this work.
Mr. Graham agreed to help John find the gun in exchange for them going house later, and John agreed. Then he tied John's wounded hand with a cloth for him
Also, Mr. Graham explained to John that he gets electricity through the windmill behind Jesse's house and that he has spent a lot of effort in this way.